Lori Vallow hit with 2 additional charges after her children’s remains were found
Tim Balk
Lori Vallow, whose two children went missing before their bodies were discovered on her husband’s eastern Idaho property this month, was charged Monday with two additional counts in the sensational case.
The Madison County Prosecuting Attorney’s office charged Vallow, 47, with two felony counts of conspiracy to destroy, alter or conceal evidence, according to a criminal complaint.
She was jailed in February and charged with two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children, in addition to misdemeanor charges.
The remains of Vallow’s missing children, daughter Tylee Ryan and son JJ Vallow, were unearthed June 9 on the property of her husband, Chad Daybell.
Tylee and JJ went missing in September, and the search riveted a cluster of Idaho communities and transfixed the wider public. Rumors of Vallow’s ties to a doomsday cult helped generate massive interest in the case.
Tylee was 17 when she vanished. JJ was 7.
Vallow on Tuesday appeared by video link before Magistrate Judge Faren Eddins in Fremont County Court. Her bond was set at $1 million. She is due again in court for a preliminary hearing Aug. 10.
Daybell, 51, was arrested earlier this month and charged with two counts of destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence.